Back in 1998, I e-mailed a friend of mine who is a veteran rock critic, and asked him to recommend some good songs from the last decade or so. My friend provided me with a list of about 100 songs, all of which I subsequently found and burned onto six CDs, alphabetically by title.

I hadn't listened to those discs in a while, but I pulled them out about an hour ago, threw them into my CD carousel, and hit "random." The track listing follows:

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